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From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: [PATCH] Detect escape of ErrorContextCallback stack pointers (and from PG_TRY() )
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Msg-id CAMsr+YENpG2nU3aTxWX_T=+g-dsyZoR6bPqUxEro7YKuwYr9Tw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Detect escape of ErrorContextCallback stack pointers (and from PG_TRY() )  (Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 14:13, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

I actually had a pretty good look around for static analysis options to see if I could find anything that might help us out before I landed up with this approach.



Using a test program:


so ... that's interesting. I'll need to do some checking and verify that it's effective on the actual problem I originally had, but if so, I shall proceed with kicking myself now.

Handily, the same thing can be used to detect PG_TRY() escapes.

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 Craig Ringer                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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